Books
August 01, 1983
The Fascination of Henry Adams
The voluminous Adams papers now being gradually published by the Massachusetts Historical Society are a national archive in themselves. These magnific
June 20, 1983
The Spell of Fagin
Oliver Twist can attract and hold almost every kind of imagination, since its main figures—the defenseless waif, the devilish fence, the unctuous bead
June 20, 1983
A Keynes for All Seasons
Had Keynes chosen to play the establishment game, he almost surely would have succeeded Alfred Marshall as the dominant academic authority of his gene
February 23, 1982
Sex Provided
Has nakedness ever been for people what it now is for us? This is an important and philosophical question. A woman undressing in a film made in 1919 r
May 03, 1980
Edmund Wilson in the 1930s
Wilson’s work as a reporter brought him much closer to the nation’s realities and he described these with his masterly concreteness.
December 09, 1978
Poetry
Never have so many written with such technical skill: this remark, as often an expression of frustration and dismay as of admiration, has become a commonplace of poetry criticism in the 1970s. Never, of course, have so many written. And published. And competed for a lamentably small audience: there are perhaps more writers than readers of poetry at the present time. In so diminished a sphere the consequences have been, and continue to be, predictable.
July 09, 1977
Full Disclosure
In its long and distinguished history, The New Republic is again about to break new groun: the first four fold table in a book review.
August 23, 1975
The Metropolitan Opera
New York’s Metropolitan Opera has the same function as its Metropolitan Museum of Art: to keep valuable works of the art it is concerned with availabl
April 12, 1975
Half Lesson
Watchmen in the Night by Theodore C. Sorensen MIT Press; $8.95 "Watergate is like a Rorschach," Aaron Wildavsky observed at a Washington seminar last year.
July 01, 1972
Edmund Wilson on <i>The New Republic</i>
During the 1920s Edmund Wilson created for himself a special position in the republic or anarchy of American letters: he became the Sainte-Beuve of a
